New post (now with comments!) and update (Patreon)

Here it is, our first post with comments enabled! We put together a comments policy which we hope will ensure productive and respectful discussion: https://www.animefeminist.com/about/comments-policy/ 

We're a little nervous about the potential for comments to go horribly wrong, especially on a feminist blog, but this is something we know our readers really want so we'll give it our best shot to make it work. 

Who do we mean by "we"? Check out our new page introducing you to the main players on Team AniFem, and each of our favourite anime of the season: https://www.animefeminist.com/about/team/ 

There are more people than that behind the scenes, but not everyone wants to be publicly identified and some people are more like consultants and contribute less in the day-to-day. On Patreon, most of the time you will be speaking with Amelia. 

Creating these new pages, policies and features is all part of a wider effort to improve the AniFem experence for you. This includes setting up a robust contributors' process, a well-stocked content pipeline, clear division of roles and responsibilities within the team and improving our web design. 

Speaking of which, If you have any feedback on our web design please let us know in this form and our designer will incorporate it into our plans: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyIazniUk6jNrZCV1t53SuU1NEKFgci2-SmCZQ0r9XAL6n8g/viewform 

Okay, this turned into more of an all purpose update than just a new post notification... but it's really important to us to keep you in the loop where we can. The more we improve our site and processes the easier this should be.

Our first month's successes have honestly taken us all aback, and we've not been prepared to deal with quite the level of attention we've received, but we are working on that and making sure we can be more responsive going forward. We've learned so much over the past month, and now we're starting to put it all into practice. 

As always, if you have any questions, suggestions or general feedback at any time, please don't hesitate to get in touch - you are the ones making sure all this happens!